Young Couple Send Chrildren to Relatives And Commit Suicide onChristmas Day

      

The parents of two young children tragically killed themselves on Christmas Day over money worries, neighbours said today Dec. 27 2014..
The bodies of Jan and Julia Tshabalala were seen through a window by a worried relative who went round to their home.
Both in their 30s, the mum and dad were believed to have been “in deep financial trouble” and had sent their children aged between five and seven, to stay elsewhere.
They are thought to have been with a relative while the parents prepared for Christmas Day.
A suicide pact was the likeliest explanation facing detectives probing the tragedy.
The couple’s white Kia 4x4 stood on the drive outside their £280,000 home in Billingshurst, West Sussex, and a police officer was said to be looking after the family’s pet rabbits.
Dad Jan, 33, is believed to have hanged himself, but police could not say how 30-year-old mum Julia had died.
It was not clear whether she had suffered injuries or was suffocated.
But the case was being treated as a double-suicide rather than a murder-suicide, according to sources.
Another neighbour said: “I’d see Jan in his front garden and he would wave. Julia was a good mother, I’d see her at the swings in the park with her kids.

Christmas tragedy: Police at the scene of the deaths in Billingshurst, West Sussex.

"They were completely normal and very pleasant people.”
Police said: “Emergency services were called just after 9am on Christmas Day.
“A 33-year-old man and a woman were sadly found dead. Officers are working to establish the circumstances of the death but are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.”
A report will be prepared for the West Sussex coroner who will hold inquests.

Mirror UK